skeleton: Generic function to build a skeleton for codebook input from...

In jknowles/metaframe: Metadata for Dataframes

Description

To make metadata input more efficient, this function builds out a custom csv file that can be edited in an outside text editor and read back into R and then used to construct a metadata object.

Usage

skeleton(data, file = NULL, replace = FALSE, fileEncoding = "latin1", ...)

## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
skeleton(data, file = NULL, replace = FALSE,
  fileEncoding = "latin1", ...)

Arguments

data	a data object to construct a codebook skeleton for
file	a character string indicating where the file should be saved, if NULL codebook object is printed to the console
replace	logical, should an existing codebook skeleton file be overwritten, default is FALSE
fileEncoding	file encoding to be passed to write.csv, default is "latin1"
...	additional arguments to pass to write.csv

Value

A CSV file

Author(s)

Jared Knowles

jknowles/metaframe documentation built on May 19, 2019, 11:43 a.m.